Most Popular Books by Karl Schroeder

A manual of midwifery - Including the pregnancy and the puerperal state is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our January 2015 issue, supersized for our 100th issue, contains: Original Fiction by Aliette de Bodard ("Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight"), Tang Fei ("A Universal Elegy"), Naomi Kritzer ("Cat Pictures Please"), Kij Johnson ("The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary"), Zhang Ran ("Ether"), Catherynne M. Valente ("The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild"), and Jay Lake ("An Exile of the Heart"). Classic stories by Damien Broderick ("This Wind Blowing, and This Tide"), and Karl Schroeder ("Laika's Ghost"). Non-fiction by Jason Heller (Song for a City-Universe: Lucius Shepard's Abandoned Vermillion), an interview with Xia Jia, an Another Word column by Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

"Devoid of gravity, Virga is a massive balloon, three thousand miles in diameter. The humans that exist in this world must build their own fusion suns for warmth and their own spinning 'towns' for gravity. Years ago, the nation of Slipstream came from the clouds and conquered their neighbour, Aerie, destroying their sun and killing the parents of Hayden Griffin. Hayden is bent on revenge, but in Virga, up is often down and Hayden's plan may not go off as he'd hoped. On the brink of war, Hayden's checkered past might just come in handy. One part steampunk adventure, one part sci-fi epic, and one part action spectacular, Virga: sun of suns is truly like nothing you've seen before"--Back cover.

Sun of suns: It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for centripetal gravity.

Dans un futur lointain, l'espèce humaine a colonisé la galaxie. Les intelligences artificielles qu'elle a créées ont fini par s'émanciper, enfantant des entités surpuissantes comme 3340 et Choronzon, de véritables dieux. 3340 a voulu conquérir l'univers, asservir l'humanité. Il a été vaincu par Calandria May, une mercenaire bio-améliorée ; mais le général Armiger, son âme damnée, a réussi à survivre. Réfugié sur la planète Ventus, Armiger y prépare la résurrection de son maître. Calandria May et un autre mercenaire, Axel Chan, sont envoyés pour l'empêcher de mener à bien son projet. Pour vaincre Armiger, ils devront percer le secret des Vents, ces entités intelligentes et meurtrières qui veillent jalousement sur l'équilibre écologique de Ventus.

"In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario. The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency. Both the peacekeepers and the insurgents use a range of new technologies, some fantastic-sounding, but all in development in 2005. Needless to say, the good guys win, but not without consequences; the document explores everything from the evolution of individual soldiers' kits to strategic considerations in world of pervasive instant communications. The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book." [http://www.kschroeder.com/foresight-consulting/crisis-in-zefra] -- From author's website.